@article{article_309080, title={Assessment of gamma dose rates around Gaziantep, Turkey}, journal={Journal of Nuclear Sciences}, volume={4}, pages={19–25}, year={2017}, DOI={10.1501/nuclear.2023.22}, author={Zuhur, S. and Çeliktürk, D. and Yazıcı, A. N. and Öztürk, Z.}, keywords={Natural radioactivity, Gamma spectrometry, Cosmic and terrestrial gamma radiation}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">In this study, the measurements were performed 1 m
above the ground in air and surface soils at certain points in the city of Gaziantep
located at south of Turkey with a populatıon of 1.5 million.  Air and soil measurements were carried out by
portable detectors and gamma spectrometry system. As a result of measurements
performed in the air, average annual effective dose of 66.81 </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">µ </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Sv y <sup>-1 </sup> and
gamma counting of 50.43 1 s <sup>-1 </sup> were found. On the other hand, as a
result of gamma spectrometric analyses in the surface soil samples, average
activity concentrations of </span> <sup> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">226 </span> </sup> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Ra, <sup>232 </sup>Th and <sup>40 </sup>K </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">were found to be </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">28.92, 29.49 and 255.30 Bq kg <sup>-1 </sup>,
respectively. Calculated absorbed dose rate and annual effective dose values
depending on the activity concentrations, were found to be 38.45 nGy h <sup>-1 </sup>
and 47.17 </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us"> µ </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">Sv y <sup>-1 </sup> </span> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-us">. When the measured values are compared with UNSCEAR
2000 report’s worldwide average value, our result is slightly lower than these
values.  </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Ankara Üniversitesi}